The Listening Room (1.7.21)
- Thursday, July 1, 2021
Andris Nelsons conducts Shostakovich, Vasily Petrenko makes his last recording as MD of the RLPO, Jan Lisiecki and Seong-Jin Cho play Chopin and Elena Fischer-Dieskau plays Brahms
Andris Nelsons conducts Shostakovich, Vasily Petrenko makes his last recording as MD of the RLPO, Jan Lisiecki and Seong-Jin Cho play Chopin and Elena Fischer-Dieskau plays Brahms
The Vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields on how the church's charitable and musical lives relate
Tomorrow night, we’ll know who has won the 2021 Malko Competition. The contest in Copenhagen has taught us plenty of lessons along the way...
The German pianist Sebastian Knauer on the story behind his latest project, ‘The Mozart Nyman Concert’
Daniel Barenboim conducts Debussy, Kate Lindsey sings Bartolomeo Monari, Patricia Kopatchinskaja plays Francisco Coll and Leif Ove Andsnes plays and conducts Mozart, plus a video track from Oliver...
The British cellist follows up from his blog last year, explaining how his desire to keep classical music alive during the pandemic has taken him to France for some wide-ranging artistic projects
Richard Strauss from Bertrand Chamayou and Antonio Pappano, Julian Bliss and James Baillieu play Brahms, Weber from Anna Prohaska and Matthias Kirschnereit and Florence Price from Randall Goosby. Plus...
How Poulenc's own performances made Mark Bebbington question his approach to a composer's score
Some of the most ear-catching recent releases – including Joby Talbot from Miloš, Tchaikovsky from Paavo Järvi, and Ysaÿe played by James Ehnes – and a tribute to the late and great Christa Ludwig
Why the rarely-heard oratorio La Resurrezione is a perfect project for our times
Composer and pianist Iain Farrington surveys the interwoven history of classical and jazz as his new album, 'Gershwinicity', is released on the Somm label
Simon Rattle's Rachmaninov, Pergolesi from Ensemble Resonanz, Peter Jablonski plays Stanchinsky, Anna Lucia Richter sings Monteverdi and Lise Davidsen sings Wagner
Elan Sicroff shines a light on an unfairly neglected composer as a new series of recordings is released on the Nimbus label
The co-founder of Manchester Collective on the commitment they've made to audiences - and to themselves
Gramophone's Editor on the delight of discovering new music through artists - and talking to them about it
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